Anti-racism
Racism refers to beliefs, practices, and institutions that discriminate against people based on their perceived race. Discrimination against individuals or groups based on their race, colour, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin is a basic violation of human rights.
A number of initiatives have been introduced by the Executive to promote and raise awareness of race equality.
Examples of work include:
The Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES) have produced Educating for Race Equality - a Toolkit for Scottish Teachers. The toolkit aims to support teachers taking forward anti-racist education.
Show Racism the Red Card produced a resource for schools, comprising of a video and education pack. The resource uses football as a medium to tackle racism, and every school in Scotland has received a copy.
HMIe recently produced Promoting Race Equality: Making It Happen. The report aims to share good practice demonstrated by Scottish schools, and provides case studies on the features of effective practice. The Executive also produced research in June 2006 on how racist incidents are dealt with in schools.
Other long-term projects are being taken forward with the over-arching aim of promoting equality within education. The work will impact on areas such as school staff development, mainstreaming anti-discrimination into the curriculum, the reporting of racist incidents, and assisting local authorities with their duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.